$540 Million Lottery
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- duckseason0
I won $2!
- how much does a ticket cost?digdre
- $1duckseason
- me too. but i bought 5.CanHasQBN
- fooler0
I totally blame my kid for not being 2 or 4 and my wife for not being 23 and my parents for having me 2 years earlier or 6 years later for me not winning this time.
- mg330
Been watching all these fake ticket pranks on YouTube. What's really funny are the people who act like winning low amounts like <$100,000 will solve all their problems, they wont have to work anymore, take a bunch of vacations, etc. Hell even a million dollars isn't enough to necessarily allow you to stop working.
- you'll need 5 million minimum throughout your lifetimealbums
- dbloc0
“These people are going to kill you. It’s not worth your life!” said one after she opened the door.
- 20020
I will make my own commercial and buy 90 sec air time on Super Bowl.
It will be a video of me just staring at the camera.
- goldieboy0
The store that sold one of the winning tickets receives $100,000 bonus... Not a bad days work!
- CyBrainX0
I can't tell you how much I hate ever having to wait in line for people buying these tickets for loss.
- prophetone0
best advice, buy a single ticket
- albums0
if your odds of winning a jackpot are 1 in 175,711,356 then if you buy 10 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 17,571,135 then if you buy 100 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 1,757,113 then if you buy 1,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 175,711 then if you buy 10,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 17,571 then if you buy 100,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 1,757 then if you buy 176,000,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 1.
- albums0
if your odds of winning a jackpot are 1 in 175,711,356 then if you buy 10 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 17,571,135 then if you buy 100 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 1,757,113 then if you buy 1,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 175,711 then if you buy 10,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 17,571 then if you buy 100,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 1,757 then if you buy 1,000,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 176 then if you buy 176,000,000 unique tickets your odds become 1 in 1.
- this would be true if a winner was guaranteed in each draw, its not because its a lottery not a rafflespot13
- It is guaranteed because every combination had been bought. Note the word "unique".404NotFound
- you're wrong, what I've written doesn't mean what you said at all...albums
- a loss is guaranteed in each draw even if you bet red or black its still 50/50 but you can lose, hence the small payout, high odds.albums
- because of the high odds, as compared to choosing a # on the roulette wheel higher odds, higher payout.albums
- you have to admit to yourself the chance of loss exists even if you bought 99% of the tickets, you increase odds, but dont guarantee until 100%albums
- guarantee until 100%albums
- it is a mathematical raffle if you buy every ticket, you guarantee all tickets have been bought and played by youalbums
- prophetone0
so without knowing all the facts here, can i assume that it will be fairly easy to tell if she bought 2 sets of tickets in her last trip to 7-11? like a record of transactions that shows she made two transactions, maybe one her her own debit card and trace what ticket was what? or maybe her winning ticket was bought a day earlier and that can be proven in fact it was, and with her own dough on her day off... it's not clear when she bought her own winning ticket, it's assumed it was when she bought the others but maybe not? they better figure it out before more people arrive at her door, unhappy people.
- the flipside to this is she is lying, of course. which is what everyone wants to believe.prophetone
- greedy people.albums
- prophetone0
if you can afford to buy 176,000,000 tickets you wouldn't even care about joining in with the soiled masses at am/pm grasping at an impossible dream with one hand and a cherry squishee in the other...
- there is paid labor involved but things similar have already been done in the pastalbums
- craigatkinson0
I'd buy some nikes and some african mango
- sherm0
I'd shag 2 chicks at once from every country one country at a time.
I'd get a boat. a yacht like boat.
I'd get a 3 floor apt in NYC with some green space.
And a Porsche* I might get a top hat like TPayne. And omg a fucking voice box thing so everything I say sounds like Jack
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- prophetone0
saw this on CNN, kinda sums it up as far as odds...
Chance you will be die from being struck by lightning: 1 in 3 million. Chance you will win the Mega Millions jackpot: 1 in 175.7 million.
- Which means nothing.404NotFound
- chance of getting spot13 to understand what's going on: 1 in ∞albums
- it means 'fat chance bud'prophetone
- Mr_Right0
Chance QBN will be free of spam next week: 1 in 263,000.
Chance a spammer will win the Mega Millions jackpot: 1 in 14.
- ohhhhhsnap0
the NYpost came out with an article about how the lives of peeps who WIN the millions become druggies, and are totally a waste. there's no counseling as to what to do with all that dough.
i still do not believe any of it is real. their winners are probably actors.
andimout.
- melq0
Any time I consider purchasing a lottery ticket I instead take that dollar and put it in an envelope.
Total winnings thus far: $1
- mg330
If I did win that much money, I'd by no means be lazy with it. After the shock wore off I'd be pretty pumped to pursue some business ideas. I'd still want to work and create something. My fiance and I have a big goal of opening a bed and breakfast/boutique hotel in the woods in Colorado someday; I'd go after that and focus on getting every aspect of my vision into it.
In the short term I'd definitely get my snowboarding friends together on a massive quest to ride at the places that still have snow. Probably just buy a cabin in Whstler, party and snowboard until burning the place down.